The world premiere of Vacation (Special Blend, Forum & Foursquare movie) is going down on the sand in Huntington Beach, California (just North of the HB Pier) on September 28, 2011 at 8 PM, but those in Eurolandia should not feel left out. No. Not in the least. Vacation is doing a Europe lap in hitting Austria, Spain, France, Italy, and the Netherlands during the first week in October. Follow the jump for all the details. [click to continue…]
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One of the biggest shed events of the year happened last night (Wednesday, September 7, 2011) in New York City as Travis Rice and the Brain Farm Cinema crew premiered their newest film The Art Of Flight with a star-studded event.
The best news for everyone who wasn’t at the historic Beacon Theatre is that now all of us (with US iTunes accounts) can watch the film right now by downloading it from the iTunes store. And it’s only $7.99. Click here to buy it, or follow the jump for the official word and some more photos.. [click to continue…]
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Whitewash, a documentary that focuses on African American surfers, will be released on DVD and VOD on October 4, 2011.
The film, which is narrated by Ben Harper and Tariq Black Though of The Roots, reportedly “explores the history of rarely detailed surfing culture within the African American community, told from the POV of black surfers from Hawaii, Jamaica, Florida, and California.,” according to a story on Indiewire.
And yes, the film features Sal Masekela, who (if you saw him surf during the US Open of Surfing) is ripping right now.
[Link: Indiewire and Whitewash]
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In a review of magazine advertising for the first half of 2011 (January through June) the The Association of Magazine Media is reporting that business is slightly up compared to 2010. But only by 1.3 percent. In the action sports magazine space*, however, Transworld Media is pulling through with gains much higher than the average on every title except Skateboarding and Wakeboarding.
Here’s how the titles look in order of performance based on total advertising pages sold in first six months of the year (click here for past reports):
2011 2010 %Chg TRANSWORLD MOTOCROSS 500.22 440.49 13.6 TRANSWORLD SURF 407.77 372.29 9.5 TRANSWORLD RIDE BMX 130.25 120.41 8.2 TRANSWORLD SNOWBOARDING 351.08 337.17 4.1 TRANSWORLD SKATEBOARDING 432.24 463.30 -6.7 TRANSWORLD WAKEBOARDING 205.86 222.48 -7.5
*Transworld Media is the only action sports publishing company whose titles are tracked by The Association of Magazine Media’s Pub PIB.
[Link: Association of Magazine Media]
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Ben Marcus, the author previously known to Boardistan.com readers as “The World’s Best Surf Writer,” has written a 256-page book on skateboarding titled: The Skateboard: The Good, The Rad, and The Gnarly. The Skateboard includes a complete history of skateboarding from crate scooter to the present time.
In writing the book (which features photography by Lucia Griggi) Marcus interviewed nearly everyone who had anything to do with skateboarding over the past 70 years, and while print space is limited, the stories that made it to print is impressive. With the exception of a flopped and spun photo of Tony Hawk on the third page we’ve enjoyed every page we’ve looked at. The Skateboard: The Good, The Rad, and the Gnarly would be a welcome addition to anyone’s skateboarding book library.
Mr. Marcus will be signing, The Skateboard: The Good, The Rad, and The Gnarly on Saturday, August 13, 2011 from 4 to 7 PM at the California Surf Museum in Oceanside, California. The signing will be in conjunction with the opening of a new exhibit titled, Clay to Urethane: Skateboard Transitions 1965-1975 curated by Tracker Trucks founder Larry Balma.
Skaters scheduled to attend the opening on Saturday include: the Logan brothers, Steve Cathey, Denis Shufeldt, Frank Nasworthy, Gregg Weaver, Chris Yandall, Dale Smith, Jim Goodrich, Eddie Katz, Buddy Carr, Doug “Pineapple” Saladino, and more.
The California Surf Museum is located at 312 Pier View Way, Oceanside California.
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Already Been Done has a great Dave Carnie story titled Rob Dyrdek and the World of Mainstream Skateboarding which Carnie talked Street League with Rob. Here’s a bit of it:
The first season of Street League was, at times, painful to watch. I wasn’t the only person to liken it to watching golf. Nieratko thought it looked like kids playing on a slide. “They slide down, then they run back to the top, and slide down it again, then run back to the top…” I sometimes see a combination of freestyle and jump ramps when I watch it. Rob himself even admitted that the first season was “slow as fucking shit.” Is this how skateboarding is going to be perceived?
Click the link to read the rest because, as usual with Carnie stories, it is real and insightful. And those are two words we rarely use in connection with skateboard media.
[Link: Already Been Done]
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Get-N Classic, Volume 1, the Vans surf film that premiered last week at Newport Beach, California’s Lido Theatre is now available for free download at Vans.com. The film features Joel Tudor, Nathan Fletcher, Pat, Tanner and Dane Gudauskas, John, Ivan and Nathan Florence, Dylan Graves, Alex Knost, Andrew Doheny, Kalani Chapman and Jason “Ratboy” Collins.
Filmed and edited by Graham Nash and Reagan Ritchie, Get-N Classic, Volume 1 captures this unique juncture in surf history and chronicles the travels of the Vans Surf Team as they have crossed the globe in search of surf and adventure.
Any film that kicks off with a Surf Punks song is fine by us. Download a copy of Get-N Classic for smartphone, iPad, iPod, or in full high-res by clicking here.
[Link: Vans.com/Getnclassic]
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When a 16-year-old beach goer nearly buried himself alive in a Newport Beach, California sand pit collapse on August 2, 2011 who was there to catch the rescue on video? Ghetto Juice Magazine’s Skip Snead, that’s who. He was also there to provide the video to the Associated Press and give an eye witness interview. Ghetto Juice covers Newps like no one else.
[Link: Ghetto Juice via Gawker.com]
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Skater, musician, and graphic designer GSD (Garry Scott Davis) is one of the most influential skateboard chroniclers of the modern era.
Through his seminal zine Skate Fate (which he published by hand from 1981 to 1991) GSD uncovered, interviewed, and dissected the icons of skateboarding as no one had before or has since. Now, Garry has collected the best of Skate Fate into one volume that makes the genius of the zine even more obvious.
The Best of Skate Fate is a mega-thick, 320-page, stark black-and-white book bursting with the most crucial content culled from the pages of nearly all 76 issues of this legendary zine. It’s delivered to you fresh from the pre-computer era, when pens, pencils, paper, glue, tape, triangles and T-squares were the tools of the trade. Scanned directly from the original master layouts, it all looks better than ever!
The Best of Skate Fate is available for purchase online now for only $16.95. Click here to buy it now, or wait for the hardcover version which GSD says is coming soon. Follow the jump for all the details.
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Action Industry veteran Matt Patterson has reportedly signed on as VP of Marketing and Business Development for SponsorMe. Here’s what Matto has to say about his new employer.
“SME is positioned perfectly to assist action sports brands to bridge the gap between their core and non-core audiences seamlessly and with all the credibility and authenticity they are known for,” said Patterson. “We are living in interesting times, very few small brands have survived this recent economic torpor and most of the exciting new developments are coming from the big guys these days. Red Bull, Monster and Nike are the labels kids are in to and we are finding an ever expanding group of influential taste-makers and culture-vultures that are okay with this new twist. It’s no-longer a sin to be successful and the action sports industry needs a platform that can speak with credibility to this group.”
We’ve never been able to figure out exactly what SponsorMe business model is, and Matto’s explanation doesn’t help much. Follow the jump and see if you can figure it out. [click to continue…]
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